I’m pretty sure you can just mount it with mount and specify noatime

How are you copying them? It could potentially be faster to use rsync. You can try mounting with noatime as a flag as well.

8 billion stupid monkeys, incapable of doing anything but fucking the planet up worse and worse.

We’re all stupid monkeys. Don’t pretend it’s just one place.

Can’t target properly with 100MPH winds